Atlantans can vote for their city to receive $1 million grant for hunger relief through a Walmart Facebook campaign.
The campaign began Nov. 15 and runs through Dec. 31. Walmart and the Walmart Foundation are asking people to cast their vote on walmart.com/fightinghunger. They can choose from a list of 100 communities that have high hunger rates, according to the Food Research and Action Center. The city with the most online support will receive a $1 million grant. The cities with the next largest support will receive $100,000 each to fight hunger.
As of 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Atlanta was ranked 23rd with 669 supporters, just ahead of Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH which had 620 supporters. The region includes Atlanta, Sandy Springs and Marietta.
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